Emma Russell > Haynes and Boone CDG, LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Haynes and Boone CDG, LLP Offices
1 New Fetter Lane
LONDON
EC4A 1AN
England
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Emma Russell
Work Department
Finance, Fund Finance, Real Estate Finance, Financial Institutions and Insurance Finance, Leveraged Financings, International, Multi-Currency/Cross Border Financings, Financial Regulatory
Position
Partner and Head of the Finance Practice Group
Career
Emma Russell is a partner and head of the Finance Practice Group in the London office of Haynes and Boone. Emma is an experienced loan finance lawyer with extensive knowledge in global fund finance, real estate finance transactions, and structured and specialty finance, as well as more general experience in acquisition, leverage, and general corporate finance.
Emma is recognised as a notable practitioner in the Banking & Finance: Lenders: Lower Mid-Market section which received the highest achievable band 1 ranking in Chambers UK, Chambers and Partners, 2021. Emma also sits on the Board of the Fund Finance Association (FFA) and the Board of the Women in Fund Finance group (WFF). In 2022 Emma was named one of the most influential in the Fund Finance Industry by the Drawdown publication. The team she heads up also won Funds Finance advisor of the year at the Drawdown awards.
Her practice focuses on the full range of fund lending products across all fund sectors, (including private equity, real estate, secondaries, infrastructure, and hedge) from capital call facilities, hybrid/NAV facilities, preferred equity structures, to general partner support, co-invest facilities and portfolio acquisition facilities and assisting funds with structuring. Emma has significant experience advising credit funds and their lenders in relation to leverage facilities to CLO’s/CDO’s and securitisation vehicles.
Emma’s experience also includes advising both lenders and funds on private equity, receivables financing, asset based lending, speciality finance, real estate fund structuring, and acting for both lenders and sponsors in relation to investment and development real estate finance and leverage restructurings.
Emma has spent significant time working in-house with various financial institutions during her career. She has gained varied experiences with both business and legal teams across all lending sectors.
Education
LL.B. (Hons.), University of Strathclyde Dip LP Glasgow Graduate School of Law, 1999
Lawyer Rankings
London > Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
Specialising in ESG fund financings, the finance practice at Haynes and Boone CDG, LLP advises financial sponsors, lenders, borrowers, fund managers, investors and central banks on fund finance, structured finance, refinancings, securitisation, financial institutions lending and real estate finance advice on fund financing with an international element. The team is led by loan finance lawyer Emma Russell, who has ‘valuable experience’ in fund and real estate finance, and structured and specialty finance. The ‘detail orientated’ Emily Fuller, whose expertise lies in syndicated and NAV facilities, SMA deals, GP support lines and capital facilities, is another name to note.